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Had a similar experience here. Their limits are very, very low, and ultimately make it not worth subscribing. Can't leverage a good modal if it exhausts its 5-hour budget in 30 minutes.

Paying API prices for Deepseek 4.1 Flash feels like a much better deal at the moment.

Looks good. Suggestion: make parenthesis and brackets more different from each other.

> Targeted ads that profile me as someone who buys things in the niche I buy things are good.

I don't think so. There's a fundamental conflict of interest between the entity paying for the ad, the entity serving the ad, and the people seeing it. Their goal is to ultimately get ad viewers to spend the most amount of money, which may or may not be aligned with their interests. The advertiser has an incentive to convince them to buy something, whether that will benefit them or not.

I believe convincing customers to buy something is a much bigger sales driver than solving problems for them, unfortunately. And those two seem to go to hand in hand less and less as time passes.

Why only for minors? It's not good for adults either.

If implemented as the title implies, data about minors would still be collected (though they'd get generic ads until 18), and now age verification becomes a hard requirement for anything that uses advertising.

Banning targeted advertising completely is a much better move and reduces the incentive to track people online.

Pretty cool stuff. Seems like the web build script isn't escaping spaces in the game name.

I do think it covers that, since you're conveying the uncertainty.

MongoDB has been proprietary since 2018.

This looks interesting. Are you the author? You could mark your post as a "Show HN".

What are the trade-offs compared to QuickJS? I understand from the README that Sablejs is expected to be faster. Can code being executed inside it be preempted/paused in any way?

> If you put it in a bank to get interest you are solidly into the not-gambling end of the scale

Isn't that a bet that your government won't devalue your currency fast enough?

The inspiration on GameMaker is clear and very much appreciated.

Can the IDE run on other OSes besides Windows? You seem to be using WinForms.I tried building it and running through Wine, but it didn't work.

Congrats on the project, making an IDE is no easy task. I believe there's room for a game engine to offer what GameMaker 8.1 used to (near instant runs, extremely fast iteration time for 2D games).

> Why do I never hear about this ‘feature’ from American products like gmail

I can't relate, I hear people complaining about American spyware online all the time in tech circles like HN.

Note: this blog post is an ad for a hosting product.

> new programming language development is basically dead at this point

I think it's the opposite. For the projects that warrant it (usually games), it has never been easier to create a custom embeddable scripting language. It was always somewhat common to have custom languages, specially if the game is open to mods and/or allows users to create custom maps, but now that's easier than ever to do.

It would be nice if the examples included an integration with an existing game engine. Game scripting is a very common use case for those languages.